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Welcome from DA Heather Adams
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District Attorney Heather Adams launched the Human Trafficking Task Force four years ago on January 11, recognized across the U.S. as Nation...
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The Lancaster County Office of the District Attorney is dedicated to achieving justice and protecting the safety of our community. We thorou...
Read MoreThe Role of the District Attorney's Office
Have you ever wondered what the role of the District Attorney’s Office consists of, in addition to prosecuting criminal cases?District Att...
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Images from Lancaster Safety Coalition cameras showing a February knife attack helped convict a Salisbury Township man of the stabbing.Judge...
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The Lancaster County District Attorney’s Office announces our Lancaster Law Enforcement series, which will begin Monday, January 9, 2023, ...
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Lancaster County District Attorney Heather Adams has announced that six community-based drug and crimefighting programs in Lancaster County ...
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Lancaster County’s C.A.S.E., or Campaign Against Sexual Exploitation, has a mission to engage the Lancaster County community in protecting...
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The Lancaster County District Attorney’s Office announces our Victims of Homicide Remembrance Quilt project on this National Day of Rememb...
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Created Oct 7, 2026 / Updated Oct 13, 2026
An Ephrata man charged with firing a gun multiple times inside his borough residence, endangering others inside the home, will have his case proceed to county court after waiving his preliminary hearing last week. Dylan Randall Leisey, 23, waived his preliminary hearing ...
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Oct 10, 2026
A Dauphin County man who been charged with shooting a man to death and holding his ex-girlfriend and four of her children hostage after breaking into their East Lampeter Township home Saturday morning has been located with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to his head. Tobias Joh...
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Created Oct 8, 2026 / Updated Oct 9, 2026
The Lancaster County District Attorney’s Office has concluded its review of two unrelated investigations involving potential violations of the mandatory reporting requirements by employees of two school districts in Lancaster County and is pursuing multiple criminal charges in...
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Created Oct 1, 2026 / Updated Oct 8, 2026
A New York man was sentenced to four and a half to nine years in state prison after he pleaded guilty to setting fire to a Lancaster Township apartment complex that left multiple residents displaced. Judge Jeffrey Conrad sentenced Husani A. Laviscount after he pleaded guilty O...
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Created Sep 29, 2026 / Updated Oct 7, 2026
The Lancaster County Drug Task Force arrested a city man for possessing nearly a kilogram of cocaine with the intention of selling it. Tomas Eliu Hernandez, 42, was charged with possession of cocaine with intent to distribute and possession of drug paraphernalia. Undercover of...
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Created Sep 25, 2026 / Updated Oct 6, 2026
A Lancaster County jury convicted a Martic Township man of raping an intoxicated underage girl on a Susquehanna River island following a five-day trial. The jury found Salvador Villa-Del Toro, of the first block of Old Holtwood Road, guilty on Sept. 24 of one count of rape of ...
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Created Sep 23, 2026 / Updated Oct 5, 2026
A Lancaster city man pleaded guilty to intentionally swerving into and striking a juvenile riding an electric bike with his car. Jonathan Seth, of the 100 block of Ruby Street, pleaded guilty Sept. 11 before Judge Dennis Reinaker to two counts of aggravated assault, two counts...
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Created Sep 24, 2026 / Updated Oct 2, 2026
A city man was sentenced to six to 15 years in state prison after he pleaded guilty last week to attempting to shoot a man to death after a dispute over how to pay back a lost bet. Judge Dennis Reinaker sentenced Jan Carlos Cruz-Rivera, of the 200 block of North Marshall Stree...
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Created Sep 24, 2026 / Updated Oct 1, 2026
A Lancaster city teenager was sentenced to nine and a half to 20 years in state prison after he pleaded guilty last week to shooting another juvenile in the face during an argument. Judge Thomas Sponaugle sentenced 17-year-old Jay-Quan Edward Williams, of the 300 block of East...
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Created Sep 24, 2026 / Updated Sep 30, 2026
The Superior Court of Pennsylvania last week rejected an appeal from a former Lancaster man currently serving a life sentence for shooting a man to death on a city street who had requested a new trial. Wilberto Melendez, formerly of the 700 block of Rockland Street, “failed to...
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